[TheForge] Cone Question

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hi Bob;
That works, if you grind a taper on the bars before tacking them down 
you get a bit more mileage out of it.
Once these are roughed out by hand  ( that's pretty quick) and annealed 
or hot, they can be stuck between a set of matching cones  and forced 
smooth.
I still have a wire basket of extras from 25 years ago rusting in the 
yard...been using them one by one for a long time.....PF

Bob Ehrenberger wrote:

>Pete,
>
>Thanks,  this is kind of what I ended up doing.  Though I am using the half
>round on my swage instead of making a tapered one.  For future projects the
>tapered swage would make it much easier.
>
>I was thinking of maybe welding a couple bars of round stock to a plate at
>the proper angle. I couldn't drive the stock all the way in but it would get
>the curve started.
>
>Robert Ehrenberger
>Shelbyville, Mo.
>
>Original Message +++
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:49:31 -0700
>From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cone Question
>
>I've done a bunch of these by hand  in years gone by. Fake up a tapered
>swage to work into. Then start  at the seam edges and work towards the
>center using 2  cross pein forming hammers... The blunt one for the base
>and the sharper one for the tip. Get the areas next to the seam edges
>right before doing the center and tap them closed  and finish over a
>mandril. Gets pretty quick with practice.... Using at least 18 ga makes
>it easier.....Pete  F
>
>
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